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Tuesday, 30 December 2014
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Pat Robertson (famous American preacher) telling you that Christmas is pagan!
Post by Yor'e - EARLY RAIN.
In this holidays, I pray Yah will open your eyes...
Watch Pat Robertson (famous American preacher) telling you that Christmas is pagan!
Satan is laughing in your face! How he succeeded into keeping the worship to him into Christianity!
If you are not a Roman Catholic...Why do you put up with this paganism? They were the ones who “Christianized” what Yehova calls an ABOMINATION.
If He despises this pagan practices, do you think He is going to like it when you say you do this practices for Him?
This is called MIXED WORSHIP. If you so choose to serve the God of Abraham, do it in the way that HE likes! Not your family, your church or organized religion.
What does He like? Read your bible. Christmas is not there. His appointed times (feasts) are found in Leviticus 23.
What does He like? Read your bible. Christmas is not there. His appointed times (feasts) are found in Leviticus 23.
Look what Aaron said after making the golden calf at Mt Sinai: “To morrow is a feast to the LORD” Ex 32:5
How you dare say that in front of a golden calf? How you dare talk about Him in front of a Christmas tree?
Deu 12:30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deu 12:31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Deu 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
In this holidays, I pray Yah will open your eyes...
Friday, 5 December 2014
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Monday, 24 November 2014
Saturday, 15 November 2014
House of Konsciousness' Sa Neter says the Bible Is the Best Book for Our People's Liberation
Shout out to Sa Neter because it has been a long battle and a long time coming, we need to really and truly understand that this book is the only thing that can liberate our people. Egyptologist love to say that the Bible is a White Man's book when the very history that they are using came off the interpretation of a white man.
When it comes to our REAL history the only place you can find that is in the Bible, Egyptologist love to claim a history that as Negroes we were never a part of. Yet even when you speak to real Africans that never left Africa they do not even seek to claim this so called history that Egyptologist claim is so greatly theirs.
Where is our home?
Where is our culture and Heritage?
What is our language?
Where is the history of us running our of Egypt into West Africa to be enslaved and why?
How did we fall?
How did Egypt fall?
If we are African why did our African brothers sell us out?
What was Africa called before it was called Africa?
How did we get into Africa?
How did we get to America?
How did the native indians get there?
When dealing with life and how we are in our current state today, the only book that speaks and provides history of the rise and fall and eventual rise of our people again is the Bible?
We need to wake up!
Qum Yasharahla
Sunday, 9 November 2014
Prelude to "the Jewish Confessions" on Peace FM / Petition to bring back 'The Raw Truth'
In the above video link on 30/10/14, the weekly edition of GOCC Raw Truth hosted by Gaja and had 2 Guest speaking on the show Elder Rawchaa Shayar from the Gathering Of Christ Church and Nathan who was a Jewish convert.
During the discussion Nathan was asked about information concerning the Jewish faith and the things that they do to little babies after circumcision that the public should be made aware of. Nathan did not at any point deny information brought out about the sickening things that they do in the Jewish faith and he at one point admitted that the information was true.
Since this discussion the Raw Truth has been suspended until further notice as there must be some kind of conspiracy behind why the truth regarding this kind of information concerning the Jewish should not come out. People of the so called Afro-Caribbean descent have been lied to and deprived of for hundreds of years. The questions have to be asked as why when it concerns the history of these people has information got to be hidden or censored in some kind of way to pervert the truth and ultimately justice.
Now the above video is only a short snippet of what was said but the full video will be made available very soon concerning the level of information that was brought out by the brother Nathan. Gaja at no point did nor said anything that could be considered offensive or result in the suspension of the show, as usual the disclaimer is put out at the beginning of the show that the information coming out is from the guests on the show and not the views of Peace FM.
What we need to do brothers and sisters is to show our support and sign the petition to bring the Raw Truth show back for the listeners and believers of the truth. If this can be shared and spread through the every social media network you can find. We will rise above this and the truth cannot be censored nor edited. #bringbacktheRawTruth
Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Friday, 31 October 2014
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Sunday, 12 October 2014
JUDAH RISE ...BY ...Tweeta Bird Benjimites
Check the melody check the lyrics... BENJAMIN IS ERE THE WORLD BETTA WATCH OUT... NO WONDER THEY DROPPING EBOLA (EBO MEANS HEBREW-LAAH MEANS NO) NO HEBREWS IS WAT THEY SAYING!!
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Saturday, 13 September 2014
Police harassing our brothers (When will it stop)
Post by Darren Ali.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
We are not to fear these things, this has to happen.
What we need to do is band together and support both our brothers and sisters to show them they are not alone.
Thursday, 11 September 2014
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Ronald Sanders - Lost Tribes _ Promised Lands PDF (VERY ESSENTIAL BOOK)
All pages are available on download! Not sure as to why all pages do not show up on this PDF viewer.
Page 77-80
A Striking element in Columbus's geographical religiosity is his intense and abiding interest in the second book of Esdras. (Which can be found in a King James 1611 Bible or The normal King James Apocrypha)
Page 97 - Christopher Columbus knew the earth was a sphere and he set out on an evil course to retrieve the slaves that disappeared out of the scriptures from 2 Kings 17.
Further evidence can be picked up on page 14 which shows they had prior knowledge of there being a hidden land which was not discovered yet.
Page 364 Shows that the real Hebrews were the Native people of the Americas before the Spanish arrived with Columbus and they spoke Hebrew.
They taught us in schools that Christopher Columbus found America on accident that he thought he was heading to India but he never he knew what he was doing and where he was heading.
He had a plan and an agenda to go and retrieve the Most High's people that were dwelling in the land which proves that the scriptures were true.
It even makes reference to this in the Jewish Encycopledia under "Arzareth" they lead us to believe that America fell out of the sky and was just miraculously discovered when that was not the case and the only book to ever speak of that landmass was the Bible.
He knew this because this is the same time that we were in Africa and they eventually came for us too, but he was reading the scriptures and he was trying to work out what happened to the Jews that disappeared out of the land of Assyria where did they go?
2Ki 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2Ki 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2Ki 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
2Ki 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
2Ki 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2Ki 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
So we can see here that the children of Israel were carried away into Assyria!
2Ki 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
So they were sacrificing their children to angels and demons, this is something the Most High does not even deal with.
The Most High dealt with the sacrificing of animals but we went as far to be sacrificing ourselves and our children.
2Ki 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
The Most High then removed us out of his sight and his sight is on his holy land in Jerusalem, the only tribe that was left was Judah!
2Ki 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
So eventually Judah did the samething that the northern kingdom was dealing with.
2 Esdras 13:39 And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;
2 Esdras 13:40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
2 Esdras 13:41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen,
So we can see that the ten tribes had left the multitude of the heathen, which are the other nations. In this case what nation had over taken them the Assyrians or what you would know to be today is modern day Syria.
So they took it upon themself to leave the multitude of the heathen and what?
2 Esdras 13:41 and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
2 Esdras 13:42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
They were going to attempt to leave the fallen angel practises they were dealing with in the old world and try and keep the commandments properly in the new world.
2 Esdras 13:43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
2 Esdras 13:44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
2 Esdras 13:45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
This is how the northern kingdom got into Arsareth which is the new world what you know today as being America!
He found these things out and showed it to the Spanish queen who in turn supplied him with an army with ships to sail across, they landed in Espanola which is modern day Dominican Republic!
They took us down in 1492 and forced on us the beliefs that we now know today as being tradition!
2Ma 6:6 Neither was it lawfull for a man to keepe Sabbath dayes, or ancient Feasts, or to professe himselfe at all to be a Iewe.
Under the Greeks it was an unlawful thing to keep the Sabbath day
2Ma 6:7 And in the day of the kings birth, euery moneth they were brought by bitter constraint to eate of the sacrifices; and when the Feast of Bacchus was kept, the Iewes were compelled to goe in procession to Bacchus, carying Iuie.
2Ma 6:8 Moreouer there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolomee, against the Iewes, that they should obserue the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices.
While we were under the Greeks they put out a law that we had to follow them and observe their fashions and be partakers in their sacrifices.
2Ma 6:9 And whoso would not conforme themselues to the maners of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then might a man hane seene the present misery.
So if you did not become a Greek or practise what they dealt with that is what it means by conform to them, then we would be put to death.
Deu 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Deu 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deu 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
They did not show no mercy on our elderly neither did they show mercy on our young they slaughtered us by the millions!
We came to them in hunger and in thirst we did not know they were going to do these things to us, we came to them out of the spirit of brotherhood and they just wanted war.
Psa 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
This is exactly what they were doing and they are not trying to hide it, they know that they are rewarded in this life for that because they do not believe what they are doing is going to end.
Isa 3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Psa 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
They do this because they do not want to listen to the Most High they want to build what they have off of bloodshed because they were not given anything.
Psa 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psa 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
He is going to set them straight when he comes for all the lies they have told, there is no documented fact or history in history to prove that these Jews ever had yolks of Iron around their necks.
Or of them being made to serve their enemies in any unknown land in want of anything!
The only so called history they have is that they went into concentration camps other then that nothing happened if that even did happen.
Deu 28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
We can see what type of wonder this is!
Deu 28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Because we did not serve the Most High with gladness after he gave us everything this is what he did!
Deu 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
They did this until we were destroyed this is not talking about physical destruction even though they are trying it but think about it logically, the yolks of Iron is off now because we are destroyed no one remembers that they are Israel so we are destroyed!
Deu 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
When we were in the America's they came from the other side of the world to come and take us down as swift as the eagle flieth because that is the symbol they bare.
How do we know were destroyed because imagine you have a dog you keep a leash on the dog until it learns to be controlled then you take it off and now it will listen because you have broken it.
That is what they did with us, they broke us to the point we can stand in a room with our own people and we speak the same language have the same background but our knowledge is we come from all over the place.
Then we look at eachother with hate, programmed to think we should hate our brothers because they come from a different postcode.
Deu 28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Deu 28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
They made sure what ever we had they took!
The year according to Enoch, the correct observation of time to the Most High
DAYS OF THE WEEK (BEGINNING SUNDOWN):
Sunday Day 1
Monday Day 2
Tuesday Day 3
Wednesday Day 4
Thursday Day 5
Friday Day 6
Saturday Day 7 (Sabbath)
MONTHS OF THE YEAR: 2014 (BEGINNING SUNDOWN OF GIVEN DATE)
Month 1 (30 days): Mar 15 (1st New Month/Spring – Holy Day and first day of New Year)(i.e.Sundown 15th to Sundown 16th)
Month 2 (30 days): Apr 14
Month 3 (31 days): May 14
Month 4 (30 days): Jun 14 (2nd New Month/Summer – Holy Day)(i.e.Sundown 14th to Sundown 15th)
Month 5 (30 days): Jul 14
Month 6 (31 days): Aug 13
Month 7 (30 days): Sept 13 (3rd New Month/Fall – Holy Day)(i.e.Sundown 13th to Sundown 14th)
Month 8 (30 days): Oct 13
Month 9 (31 days): Nov 12
Month 10 (30 days): Dec 13 (4th New Month/Winter- Holy Day)(i.e. Sundown 13th to Sundown 14th)
Month 11 (30 days): Jan 12
Month 12 (31 days): Feb 11
HOLY DAYS OF THE YEAR :2014 (BEGINNING SUNDOWN OF GIVEN DATE)
Feast of Unleavened Bread : March 29th Sundown – April 4th Sundown, 2014 (First Day observe as Sabbath: (ie Sundown 29th to Sundown 30th) -Last Day observe as Sabbath: (Sundown 4th to Sundown 5th))
February 25 -February 26: Purim (Esther 9:13-32) (ie Sundown 25th to Sundown 26th; Sundown 26th to Sundown 27th)
March 15: New Month Holy Day for Spring (Jubilees 6:22-38) (ie Sundown 15th to Sundown 16th)
March 28: Passover (Leviticus 23:5) (ie Sundown 28th to Sundown 29th)
March 29-April 4: Feast of Unleavened Bread : March 29th Sundown – April 4th Sundown, 2014 (First Day observe as Sabbath: (ie Sundown 29th to Sundown 30th) -Last Day observe as Sabbath: (Sundown 4th to Sundown 5th))
May 17: First fruits/Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15) (ie Sundown 17th to Sundown 18th)
June 14: New Month Holy Day for Summer (Jubilees 6:22-38) (ie Sundown 14th to Sundown 15th)
September 13: New Month Holy Day for Fall (Jubilees 6:22-38)(i.e.Sundown 13th to Sundown 14th)
September 13: Blowing of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:23-25)(i.e.Sundown 13th to Sundown 14th)
September 22: Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:26-32)(i.e.Sundown 22nd to Sundown 23rd)
September 27-October 3 : First & Last date are Sabbaths: Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33-44)(i.e. Sundown 27th to 28th is First Day ; Sundown 3rd to 4th is Last Day)
December 13: New Month Holy Day for Winter (Jubilees 6:22-38)(i.e.Sundown 13th to Sundown 14th)
December 6 -13: Feast of Dedication (John 10:22, 1 Macc 4th chp) (i.e.Sundown 6th to Sundown 7th is First Day; Sundown 13th to 14th is Last Day)
Who are Buddhist Gods
Buddhist people don't refuge gods but they only ask help from gods. Lot of Buddhist gods can be attracted to you by mind requesting. If they take your requesting into consider, they will show it by dream or some sign. These dreams can be see by you or your family member who has best precepts. Then you need to transfer merit for that god by doing big merit work by yourself. Lord Buddha said practicing of - devotion to triple gem, observe five precepts, dharma learning, donations & develop wisdom help to born in own desired heavens. Among these six heavens, Tusita heaven is special heaven where have only real Buddhist gods, goddesses and Bodhisattva gods.
Here are brief descriptions about the six heavens :
Here are brief descriptions about the six heavens :
Name Of Heaven | Heaven Of | Name of Main God | Life Time in Human Years |
Caturr Maha Rajika | Four Regions |
Satarawaram Gods
| 9 million |
Tawatimsa | Thirty-three Kingdoms | Sakkra Devandra | 36 million |
Yamaya | Fresh minded gods | Suyama | 144 million |
Tusita | Gods stay in Happy | Santusita | 576 million |
Nimmana Rati | Gods do creations | Sunimmita | 2304 million |
Paranimmita Vasawatti | Gods have all Lust | Vasawatti | 9216 million |
Also their have 20 great heavens called as Brahma Loka, which have life time more than 9216 million years. To born in Brahma Loka we need to achieve contemplation or jhana or smadhi in deep meditation.
Here had given names of those 20 Brahma Loka :
Servants of Brahma (brahma parisajja deva), Ministers of Brahma (brahma purohita deva), Great Brahmas (maha brahma), Brahmas of Small Radiance (parittabha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Radiance (appamanabha deva), Brahmas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva), Brahmas of Small Glory (parittasubha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Glory (appamanasubha deva), Brahmas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva), Brahmas of Very Fruitful (vehapphala deva),
Brahmas of not Falling Away (aviha deva), Untroubled Brahmas (atappa deva), Beautiful Brahmas (sudassa deva), Clear-sighted Brahmas (sudassi deva), Brahmas of Non-junior (akanittha deva), Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva), Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva), Unconscious beings (asaññasatta), Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva), Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva).
Here had given names of those 20 Brahma Loka :
Servants of Brahma (brahma parisajja deva), Ministers of Brahma (brahma purohita deva), Great Brahmas (maha brahma), Brahmas of Small Radiance (parittabha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Radiance (appamanabha deva), Brahmas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva), Brahmas of Small Glory (parittasubha deva), Brahmas of Infinitive Glory (appamanasubha deva), Brahmas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva), Brahmas of Very Fruitful (vehapphala deva),
Brahmas of not Falling Away (aviha deva), Untroubled Brahmas (atappa deva), Beautiful Brahmas (sudassa deva), Clear-sighted Brahmas (sudassi deva), Brahmas of Non-junior (akanittha deva), Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva), Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva), Unconscious beings (asaññasatta), Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva), Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva).
Satarawaram gods : Four main gods rule in four directions of the world & four inhuman types fromHeaven of four region or Caturr Maha Rajika. These four gods also called as Satarawaram gods and stay under rules of god Shakra Devandra. These four gods separate some devil leaders for protect virtuous Buddhist people.
Dutarathta (East) rules Gandrawa,
Virullha (South) rules Ghosts,
Virupakka (West) rules Naga &
Vaishravana - Kuwera (North) rules Devils.
Below we discuss some other Buddhist gods who are detailed in Sutra Pitakaya.
Below we discuss some other Buddhist gods who are detailed in Sutra Pitakaya.
- Brahma Gods : Brahma Sahampathi god who lives in Brahma Loka, enlightened into Anagami state in Kasapa Lord Buddha's time and helped to our Gautama Buddha. People who do meditation can get attraction of this god. Also this god good for ask help for education. Another Brahma god is Sanath Kumara who lives in Brahma Loka, help to our Buddha's Bodhisattva times. He is main Dharma talker or adviser in six heavens. Tissa Brahma is another god who helping us to understand Buddhist sutra and advanced Buddhist teachings. He became Anagami state from our Lord Buddha's time, because his past life he stayed as educated monk. Gatikara Brahma is Amagami god who was close friend of our Buddha's bodhisattva time. He also helps to Buddhist people.
- Pure Land Gods : Suddhavaso deva are gods who attain Anagami (none returning to lust worlds) and Arahant states whose help to Buddhist people. They are real gods who take care Dharma and honest Buddhist people. These gods have huge number of lifetimes and many powers than any gods. Mainly these gods help to Buddhist people who work hard for attain path and fruition of Buddhism toward Nibbana. These gods finished their spiritual path into final level and always look at human world for support noble followers and seers. There have five pure landBrahma Lokas called as - Aviha deva, Atappa deva, Sudassa deva, Sudassi deva and Akanittha deva.
- Sakkra Devandra : Main god of both Tawatimsa & Caturmaha-Rajika heavens. Sometimes looks at human world & helps to virtuous Buddhist people. This god was became soovan state (stream-enterer), so sometimes comes as poor beggar to check our precepts. This god takes decisions related to human world than other gods.
- Kuwera or Vissawana : Leader of Yakka group among Satarawaram gods, sometimes helps to poor people who stay with Buddhism. He gives permission to his servants (devils) or low power gods to say future prediction in Devala. This action called as giving -waram. Our kings time, people keep Bara for get wealth and money form help of Kuwara god. Said to be good talker but also said cruel god. People who do businesses can ask help from this god for develop wealth & success in their firms.
- Datharaththa : Leader of Gandrauwa group among Satarawaram gods, who likes to art and music. So Buddhist people who do art works or esp. music, they can ask help from this god.
- Indra Deva : All sons of Satarawaram gods, are called as Indra gods. They take care other gods & goddesses. In Atanatiya Sutta there have details of these gods. You can ask help from these gods too. Esp. these gods help to virtuous Buddhist people when they occur troubles related to inhuman attractions.
- Visaka Goddess : Visaka said to be got soovan (stream-enterer) in her age seven and helped to our Lord Buddha. Also she helps to poor people. Now she lives as powerful goddess in Nimmana Rathi heaven. Therefore Buddhist female people who practice Dharma can ask help or attraction from this goddess.
- Matru Divya Raja : Our Lord Buddha's real mother called Mahamaya Davi, was rebirth as male god in Tusita heaven. This god helps every Buddhist people and esp. female Buddhists.
- Matali God : Official driver & close friend of Sakkra Devendra god. People who do work related to traveling can ask help from this god. Sometimes this god informs to other gods about good people in human world.
- Panchasika : Official musician of heaven Tawatimsa. Buddhist people who are doing works related to music can get attraction of this god. His past life he was poor young boy who help to develop his village from his body power. Also he played Vina and flute, so his merit overcame to be god in Caturmaha-Rajika heaven.
- Janasabha or Janawasabha : Whole sutra has in Sutra Pitakaya related to this god whose past life was one of soovan or stream-entered king called as Bimbisara, who was killed by his own son. He is live under Kuwera god, sutra said he works as messenger for Satarawaram gods. He was mention as one of devil leader in Atanatiya sutra who helps to Buddhist people for cure devil & ghost problems.
- Anatapindika Deva Putra : Lord Buddha's main laic care, bank owner called Anatapindika is another soovan god, (stream-enterer) who live in Tusita heaven. He will help to any Buddhist person for life problems.
- Viswakarma God : In Tawatimsa heaven has god called as Viswakarma who has ability for engineering works, sometimes help to engineers in human world for their creations. People who do technology, can get help from this god. Also this god helps to poor but honest people by creating properties.
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The Kundalini Spirit has Invaded The Church Masquerading as The Holy Spi...
When you speak in tongues this is something that you never see Christ or the disciples do.
It mostly happens during prayer or during Music and they teach that if you cannot do this then you lack the understanding.
Act 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
The day of Pentecost is First Fruits where we all gathered in one place.
Act 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This is the scripture they use to try and say that this is speaking in tongues but we will see exactly what it is talking about.
Act 2:5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Act 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
So you can see that the tongues are languages because there were Jews from different parts of the world that spoke different languages.
In order for these same Jews to take what they have just learnt to their respective lands, the disciples would have to speak in their language.
They were not speaking languages that no one understood.
Act 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
Act 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
So you can see that these were actual languages in the earth.
If you are speaking another language then you need to have an interpreter there, if not then you are dealing with the God of Bacchus.
1Co 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1Co 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
This is what they will say that they are not speaking to men, they are speaking to the Most High.
1Co 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Paul said you are speaking mysteries if no man can understand you?
1Co 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
But if you are going to do so out of the scriptures its for edification, which is understanding as they learn.
It brings comfort because you are receiving the truth from being able to understand but how can this be so if they do not know what your saying?
1Co 14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
If you do speak in an unknown tongue then you are edifying yourself but those that prophesieth edifieth the church.
Because you are delivering the message.
1Co 14:4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
So if you have one person that is doing it, imagine if its 30 or 40 who will know what is being said?
That is confusion.
1Co 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:
Paul said he wished we all spake with tongues because the more languages you know is the more you can communicate with people.
1Co 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues,
The greatest gift is not to be able to speak with tongues but to be able to make people understand.
Which is greater then the gift of tongues.
1Co 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
This is where that is not profitable to the church because that is the main body the Most High is speaking to.
1Co 14:6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?
How would it profit you if I was speaking Spanish right now in a room full of people that speak English?
1Co 14:7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
How would you know if its a Pipe or Harp if something is coming out but no one understands what distinct sound it is?
It is about edification not to sound like someone is more spiritual then another.
1Co 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
If the spirit is talking through you and trying to tell the people to prepare?
If no one understands how can you prepare for war?
1Co 14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
The scriptures tell you that you cannot do this in the Church unless someone knows what language it is that you are speaking?
1Co 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
If no one knows what it is that you are speaking then it is better that you keep silent in the Church.
1Co 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
1Co 14:30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
1Co 14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1Co 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Paul brought that out because the Most High is not the author of confusion in the Church.
If it is not clear cut and easy to be understood it is confusion.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
The main people responsible for this was women because that is who it was aimed at.
Monday, 14 July 2014
Sunday, 6 July 2014
The truth can no longer be hid, we are the true Hebrew Israelites of the bible.
(Hosea 1:10) --- Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
They got this scene from ( 2 Esdras 14:19-48 ) & you ain't even know it.
2 Esdras 14:19 KJV Then answered I before thee, and said,
2 Esdras 14:20 KJV Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
There is a reason why the Most High was making reference to Moses and how he compiled the records of the law.
During Esdras times the laws of Moses were destroyed and Esdras was given the duty of rescribing it.
2 Esdras 14:21 KJV For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the works that shall begin.
After the Babylonian captivity the law was burnt, it got destroyed.
At this point the law was in darkness and it was destroyed.
2 Esdras 14:22 KJV But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
Esdras petitioned to the Most High to put the spirit on him, so he could rewrite it.
Even though the laws were destroyed the Most High sent the spirit on him to re-compile what was destroyed.
Friday, 4 July 2014
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Wednesday, 4 June 2014
SACRED NAME OF GOD? or BLASPHEMY?
By Roger Hathaway
It seems that the use of a personal name for God, specifically YHWH, came into practice during the captivities as some of the Israelites adopted this Aramaean deity. The name probably came officially to the Israelite religion when the Edomites joined the Jerusalem Temple about 150 years before Christ. There is evidence that Yahweh had been the Edomite's lord as far back as 1,400 BC. The oldest known appearance of the name YHWH outside the Holy Land was in Egypt about 1,400 BC where it is found on lists with five other sacred names. A Rameses II (1304-1237) list has it 6 times. In an Amon temple of AmenhotepIII (1417-1379 BC) the name is associated with Seir (Edom). Other evidence places it with Syria at 1,400 BC. That was near the time of Moses. What is significant and important is that the Egyptian lists do not associate the name with the Israelites who were a nearby existing community at the time. Inside the Palestine area, the earliest appearance of the name is on the Mesha Stele (9th C. BC), a royal inscription, where Mesha, the king of Moab, recounts the favor of Moab's deity in delivering Moab from control of its neighbor, Israel. It appears to me that, since the name had been connected with Edom from the 14th C. BC, it probably became important to the Jerusalem Temple after the Edomites took that over, after they had been forced by John Hyrcanus to convert to the Hebrew religion in the Jerusalem Temple.
As we know, it was only a few years after their "conversion?" that the Edomites had taken over Jerusalem, the Temple, the region politics with their own Herod as king, and the economy. The Edomites would have been right at home with Babylonian Talmudic Phariseeism and may have already held that practice before they took over Jerusalem. That religion had a mystic branch of kabbalistic magic. The sacred name, YHWH, was a key to their magic. As legend has it, the sacred name of a deity is so powerful that the person who knows it then has the power to use that name to command the deity to grant his wishes. Of the fifty four sacred names in the Jewish kabbalah, the primary one is YHWH. For the Edomites who had taken over the Jerusalem Temple and its religion, YHWH was a deity they had long worshipped as a part of their Pagan religion. Paganism was actually started by Cain, himself, and it stayed pretty much with the Cain race until spreading into Greece and Egypt and Italy. That Pagan mother-goddess religion was prevalent throughout the entire mid-east, each group having its own names for the deities. See my article on Paganism for the full history of it. Click on http://remnantradio.org/Archives/articles/PAGANISM.htm. It is likely that the name YHWH was used by Edom, along with Syria and Moab and perhaps some other close neighbors.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel never used any personal name to distinguish Him from any peers because He had no peers. Therefore, no personal name was ever needed. The only name He gave for Himself was "I am," which indicated that He is to be identified with all existence. The Greek Septuagint Old Testament of 285BC never used any sacred name for God, nor was such ever mentioned by other ancient writers such as the Israelite historians, Philo, and Josephus, or the later Eusebius, or even the Jewish Aristeas the Exegete who wrote his commentary on the Greek Septuagint. The word did not appear in any Old Testament text until the Masoretic Text of 1000AD!
From the viewpoint of modern theologians, it must first be understood that they all still accept the Masoretic Hebrew text of 1,000 AD as the true ancient language and Old Testament of our patriarchs. Since that Masoretic Text includes the four letter tetragrammeton, YHWH, over 6,000 times, theologians are forced to speculate that Moses must have put it in his Pentateuch. The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 6, p. 1012, reads as follows: "In terms of the biblical narrative, some suggest that Moses derived the name of Yahweh from the Egyptians, while others think Yahweh was a Midianite deity worshipped by the Kenite clan. Moses would have been introduced to this new deity when he married the daughter of Jethro..." Certainly, Moses would have been acquainted with the Pagan religion of the Egyptians. But, even if the Pentateuch was actually written by Moses (which is not known for sure) in the 15th C. BC, he could not have written it in the Hebrew language which was not formed until the time of the Israelite captivities, from the 8th to 6th centuries BC, when the captive Israelites merged their native Phoenician language with the Aramaic of their captors. Now, I ask you, who wants to raise his hand to claim that Moses adopted the name of a foreign deity as a substitute for "God" or "Lord." If we set aside the closed-minded obduracy of modern scholarship, we can see that Moses did not write any text in the modern Hebrew language because it did not exist at that time, nor was there any Hebrew alphabet or script. The oldest Old Testament text known is the Greek Septuagint of 285 BC, and the word does not appear in it one single time, or in any other ancient Israelite writing, with one exception which I will mention now.
To place this information in proper context, recall that the northern kingdom of Israelites, who had turned to other gods, had been purged from the Holy Land during the 8th century BC, along with most of Judea. It would not be until 586 BC that the last three unconquered cities of Judea, namely Jerusalem, Azekah, and Lachish, would be defeated. Archaeologists have found eighteen ostraca (clay sherds) in the city of Lachish from about 590 BC, most of them being letters from subordinates to a man named Yaosh, the military governor of Lachish. It is unknown if the writer was Israelite or Babylonian. I will quote one of the letters which uses the name YHWH casually as is typical in other documents of that time, certainly not with any reluctance to use a sacred name!
Ostracon III reads as follows: "Thy servant Hoshayahu hath sent to inform my lord: May Yahweh bring you peaceful tidings! And now (you have sent a letter but my lord did not) enlighten your servant concerning the letter which my lord sent to your servant yesterday. For the heart of your servant has been sick since you did send to your servant. And now when my lord said, 'You don't know how to read a letter!' as Yahweh lives, no one has ever tied to read a letter to me, and indeed any letter which may have come to me, I have certainly not read it . . . at all.
And your servant has been informed, saying, 'The commander of the army, Konyahu, son of Elnathan, has gone down on his way to Egypt, and Hodawyahu, son of Ahiyahu, and his men have sent me to obtain . . .'
And as for the letter of Tobyahu, servant of the king, which came to Shallum, son of Yaddua, though the instrumentality of the prophet, saying 'Take care!' your servant has sent it to my lord."
You can note the casual use of the name Yahweh without any hesitance in this military correspondence, certainly not with any hint that the name was so sacred it shouldn't be spoken or written! Furthermore, many of the other personal names contain yahu as parts of the names. At the time of this letter in 590 BC, it would only be four more years before Lachish was conquered as a punishment from God because His Israelite children had gone chasing after Pagan gods. Yahweh was likely one of them! The Pagan religion was being practiced in the Jerusalem Temple. Ezekiel had been taken captive to Babylon in 598 BC, where he was shown a vision from God in 593 BC, about iniquities inside that Temple. Ezekiel 8:13, 14 - "(13)Then He said to me, you shall see still greater transgressions which they are committing. (14) Then He led me to the vestibule of the gate of the house of the Lord facing the north, and behold here were women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz." Tammuz was the dead son for whom worshippers wept in that religion of lamentations.
Edomites were evicted from their land in 312 BC by the Nabateans, then emigrating to a region of southern Judea which was called Idumea. Then in 132 BC, the leader of Jerusalem, John Hyrcanus, forced the troublesome Edomites to be circumcised and convert to the Jerusalem temple religion of Talmudic Phariseeism. Within a century, Judea was being run by an Edomite dictator, Herod the Great, followed by his descendant Herods. The Edomites had become Judeans. When Jesus called His sheep away from that corrupt temple religion, to be Christians, the Edomites continued to be called Judeans, which is translated into English as Jews.That race of Edomites continues to be called Jews to this day. They are the eternal enemies of Christ, and certainly NOT God's chosen ones. But, I'm getting off track.
A Christian brother, who has honored the name of Yahweh, recently referred me to a couple fragments of parchment, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are Greek texts that contain the name YHWH. While the general text is Greek, the tetragrammeton is written in what modern scholars call "Paleo-Hebrew" letters, implying that ancient Hebrews had an early script of their own. But, the letters are actually Phoenician characters. Anyway, one of these parchment fragments is dated from between 50 BC and 50 AD. The other is dated in the first century AD, but it would have to be prior to 68 AD when the scrolls were buried. Finding the tetragrammeton in Greek Septuagint text is nearly like finding the Holy Grail for one who wants to believe God has a sacred name. These fragments have supported the Yahwists, who can point to them and say, "See, this proves that the tetragrammeton was used in the ORIGINAL Septuagint!" In their court, they can proudly sit down and say, "The defense rests. Case closed." They have subsequently decried the Greek Septuagint texts of the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts as faulty, assuming the tetragrammeton was deliberately removed. If the Yahwists were right in drawing the conclusion that YHWH was in the original Septuagint, I would personally apologize for my criticisms of it, and would honor that sacred name for God with sincere enthusiasm. But, wait just a moment. There is more to this story, and it supports an opposite conclusion.
Let's recall that the Edomites took over the Jerusalem Temple and the religion more than a century prior to Christ. Let's also understand that the Dead Sea Scrolls are collections of widely diverse writings of all types which are from private libraries of people of Jerusalem; perhaps some of them are even from the Temple. The scrolls were buried about 68 AD because the Edomites of Jerusalem (the Jews) were under attack by Rome. They buried their precious writings because such scribal products were very valuable - no printing presses! The Edomites had taken over Jerusalem and had persecuted and oppressed the true Israelites, pushing most of them out of the city to the fringes where many of them suffered poverty. So, these scrolls are mostly, probably ALL, from Edomites who had changed the Hebrew religion to their Talmudic Phariseeism. It appears that they were altering Old Testament texts to read YHWH where the original Septuagint had "God" or "Lord." So, the parchment fragments do NOT prove the original Septuagint used the tetragrammeton.
My own personal conclusion is more firm than ever, that the Edomite Jews have once again usurped something valuable of Israel, and have duped Jesus' sheep into calling upon the name of their Pagan lord, Yahweh. I would plead with our people to be very suspicious of anything Edomites offer us, especially their so-called Hebrew translation of our Old Testament, their Masoretic Text, which showcases the sacred name of THEIR lord.
If you are interested in a study of the many sacred names which the Jewish mystics use, I would recommend a book, Gates of Light, by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla, who was born in 1248AD. The book was published in 1994 as one of the Bronfman Library of Jewish Classics. Here are a few quotes from the book.
"Gates of Light is an encyclopaedia of God’s Names as well as a map which reveals the connections between the words in the Torah and the Names of God." (p. xvii)
"The ineffable Name YHVH represents God’s core and proves God’s unmediated link between His core and the Jewish people." (p. xix)
"The one who knows which Name of God to petition for what he wishes is like one who has the proverbial keys to the kingdom." (p. xx)
"those who want their needs fulfilled by employing the Holy Names should try with all their strength to comprehend the meaning of each Name of God as they are recorded in the Torah, names such as EHYE, YH, YHVH, AdoNaY, EL, ELOH, EloHIM, ShaDaY, TZVAOT. One should be aware that all the names mentioned in the Torah are the keys for anything a person needs in the world." (p.5)
"you need to know that there are fifty-four quadriliteral Names connected to YHVH which add up to two hundred and sixteen letters. These fifty-four Names contain the secret for drawing from the power of all that exists in the world; they are like the soul of the two hundred and sixteen letters which are contained in the verses [of Exodus 14:19-21]. Everything created is included in these fifty-four Names, and these Names are the means for fulfilling the needs of every creature through the intercession of AdoNaY." (p. 15)
Well, that should give you some idea of what the sacred names mean to the Edomite Jews, even still today. It saddens me deeply that so many good Christians are turning away from the Greek (which EVERYONE spoke at Jesus’ time in the entire Middle East because Alexander had forced it) to the Aramaic or pseudo-Hebrew/Jewish names for Jesus and for God. Aramaic is a language of the Afro-Asian language tree, not the Indo-European tree which our ancestors used from their time in the garden of Eden, on down through Sanskrit, Phoenician, Greek, and finally the Germanic languages and English. The so-called "Hebrew" is a mongrel language that developed during the captivities when the Israelites mixed their native Phoenician language with the Aramaic of their captors. The Hebrew language never even had an alphabet until the Herodian script was invented near the time of Christ, so the Old Testament could not have been written in it. The Aramaic languages were native to the Cain race which migrated into the Sumer region (Babylon) prior to Noah's descendants. Without understanding better, many of our people are scorning the language of God’s race in the Bible, and they are choosing the language of Christ’s enemies, the race of Satan from Cain and from Edom. Our Bible NEVER promoted any such magic practices, nor is there any hint that God has some kind of sacred name which has a power in itself. All that nonsense is from the Jews, and they must be laughing to watch good Christians venerating their blasphemous "names." We have followed the arch-deceivers into their pit again!
As for the name of God, our Indo-European language tradition has an impressive and consistent history. In Sanskrit, the name was dyus; in Phoenician & ancient Briton it was dias; in Greek it was theos and zeus; in Latin it was deus. The word YHWH never entered our Bible until nearly 1,000 AD when the Masoretic Text (MT) in Hebrew was completed and presented to the Roman Catholic church as the authentic original language and text of the Old Testament. The eastern half of Christendom at that time rejected the text as fraudulent and retained the Greek Septuagint of 285 BC, which they still use today.
The name, "Jesus," is the proper English pronunciation for His true Greek name of IESU. The Aramaic pronunciation for IESU is "yahshua." That Aramaic name is then translated into English as Joshua. It was a IESU who led the Israelites across the Jordan into Canaan, their promised land. And it will be IESU again who leads God's people from this kingdom of World into the Kingdom of Heaven. To use the Aramaic pronunciation, namely "yahshua," is a mistake. Jesus, his disciples, and everyone else spoke Greek. Some of the Cain races who were their neighbors retained their native language of Aramaic along with the common language of Greek. Certainly, Jesus and his friends knew some Aramaic (He even spoke a phrase of it from the cross, Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani, where "El" was a generic name for God. But Greek was their first language because it had naturally evolved from the Phoenician language of their ancestors. Those who claim that Jesus' first language was Aramaic are simply wrong. Greek is the language of our people.
Ultimately, the case for or against the sacred name YHWH is just circumstantial. There is little material evidence to support the Edomite claim that the name was even known to any patriarch or existed in any ancient scripture. There was no Hebrew language until after the captivities and there was no Hebrew alphabet until the Herodian Script which was invented just before Jesus arrived. There was no Hebrew Old Testament text until 1,000 AD. The sacred name idea was unknown to Josephus and Philo. The name YHWH was never used in the Greek Septuagint of 285 BC. Perhaps the most convincing argument against the sacred name usage is that it is part of the religion of a race of people who are notorious liars, as Jesus accused them in John 8:44. Also, there is no place in the entire Bible that God ever suggested a personal name for Himself, and certainly there is no favorable support of a religion of magic for the sake of attaining worldly desires. Lastly, the name YHWH is from the Afro-Asian language family, not from the Indo-European (Aryan) family which is the language lineage of Adam, Noah, Abraam, and Israel. I would welcome information from anyone that might suggest ANY circumstantial evidence in support of the sacred name YHWH as authentic for pre-captivities Israelites.
So, the conclusion of this case is left to each person as an individual. If you feel attracted to call upon the Pagan god of the Edomites, you may have found your proper place in the eternal program. If you feel that the highest form of religion is to seek worldly wealth and to use techniques and rituals, then you might even feel drawn to the magical Kabbalah. But, if you feel that your spiritual relationship with God is personal and intimate and something beyond rituals, worldly concerns and magic names, then you will probably feel more attracted to Jesus as your Lord. Jesus said, in the last chapter of His revelation to John, "Let the one who is unrighteous still be unrighteous, and the filthy one be filthy still, and let the righteous one do righteousness still, and let the holy one be holy still." It is not my wish to convince anyone of anything; I merely present some information for your consideration. I offer nothing for sale and have no vested interest in whatever God might choose to do with my work. As I have been freely given, so do I give freely. You may consider what I say, or not. The matter is between you and your God, whichever one of them you choose.
The following is a letter which I wrote to a yahwist with whom I have corresponded over a period of months. He did present to me all of the arguments which support the yahwist claim of sacred-name. But those arguments were shallow and easily refuted by historical known facts. Somewhat edited, here is the jist of that letter.
Dear . . . . . . . . ,
I wish to thank you for discussing the yahweh issue with me this past year. I have learned a lot. It has been my only real opportunity to examine the thinking of a yahwist, and has been something of an eye-opener for me. I’ve known only a few yahwists before and found that none of them were willing to defend their religion with evidence. You, at least, did present to me the evidence that you had, all of which was easily refuted. I showed you that from ancient records there is evidence that the tetragrammeton was the name of one of the Edomite gods but there is no evidence that Israel ever shared that same god. From the Bible we can understand that they certainly would not share the same god. We know that Esau married into the Cain race and adopted their Pagan religion which had actually originated with Cain himself, in the worship of his father, Satan, called at that time Enlil, but in later centuries Bel. For a study of Paganism, see http://remnantradio.org/Archives/articles/PAGANISM.htm. We know from the Bible that most all of the neighboring races around Israel worshipped Bel, aka Baal. But, as one studies the many names of deities of those peoples, it gets very confusing. The names of the deities varied a lot, each nation selecting its own names, even though the basic religion was fairly consistent. Anyway, I am simply saying that the Edomites were one of the nations/families who worshipped Satan through that Pagan religion. Given that fact, we then learn from Egyptian records that one of the Edomite deities was named YHWH. On their list of deities, the Egyptians made no mention that Israelites (who were a large presence there at that time of 1400 BC) honored the same god. Further, there is no evidence that Israel ever used the YHWH name. The name next shows up in the Dead Sea Scrolls which were buried by Edomites around 70 AD. Still no indication that the Greek speaking Israelites ever used the word. Instead, from the Greek Septuagint of 285 BC, we find no hint of any personal name ever being claimed by the Almighty God. Next, about 1,000 AD, the Masoretic "Hebrew" text of the O.T. appears, having been created by the Edomite Jews, the name YHWH appears frequently. Well, Roman Catholicism accepted that spurious Jewish text as authentic and as the original language of the ancient Bible people. The Eastern half of Christendom did not then, nor have they ever accepted it as anything but a fraud. What happened is understandable when we realize the Roman church was influenced by Jews from the time of Constantine (325 AD) and many popes were admitted Jews. So, they accepted the fraud. Next, in the middle ages, we find the Kabbalistic branch of the Jew’s Talmudic religion using the name as their chief of fifty four deity names. Still, no evidence that Israelites or Christians ever used it.
When the Protestant Reformers corrected some of the egregious and most blasphemous teachings of the Paganist Roman church, they did not address the text-language problem of the scriptures because they were primarily interested in getting Bibles printed for the common people. Sadly, the masoretic text was used for the O.T., and still is the basis of English versions which are all printed by Jewish publishing companies. One has to search for a copy of the Bible which Jesus used, namely the Greek Septuagint (but Brenton's translation is available from CBD, "www.christianbook.com").
If you really care about researching that yahweh name, it would be well worth the purchase of a book titled GATES OF LIGHT, subtitled "Sha’are Orah" by Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla who was born 1248 AD, translated into English by Avi Weinstein. The book "is an encyclopaedia of God’s Names as well as a map which reveals the connections between the words in the Torah and the Names of God." (p. xvii). He says on p. xx: "The one who knows which Name of God to petition for what he wishes is like one who has the proverbial keys to the kingdom." He goes on to say on page 5: "...those who want their needs fulfilled by employing the Holy Names should try with all their strength to comprehend the meaning of each Name of God as they are recorded in the Torah, names such as EHYE, YH, YHVH, ADoNaY, EL, ELOH, EloHIM, ShaDaY, TZVAOT. One should be aware that all the names mentioned in the Torah are the keys for anything a person needs in the world." On page 15, he says regarding ADoNaY: "Therefore the name instills authority and it is the rightful Name of the Master of the earth through the power invested by the Name YHVH which dwells therein." Most Christians know whom Jesus said was the lord of this world! It appears that Rabbi Gikatilla also knew.
So, where are we now? Some individuals have adopted the YHWH name from the Edomite Jew's O.T. as their sacred name for God. The ancient evidence points to that name being a god of the Paganist Edomites, a name which they brought to Jerusalem when they took over the temple during the Herodian period prior to Christ. Yahweh is, according to ALL evidence, a god of the Edomites, and in their Pagan religion, that would be Satan himself.
Christians like myself often think that ancients who worshiped Pagan gods must have been stupid or simple, but we are wrong to think that way. Those who worshipped Cain’s god knew the reality of his presence in their lives, and they knew his power. He who reigns over the kingdom of World is a powerful god indeed as he negatively serves the Almighty’s divine plan of the ages. Soon he is to be overthrown, and then no more yahweh! Jesus will lead us into the kingdom of Heaven and we shall be free from the influence of the great deceiver, that archetype liar of whom Jesus spoke in John 8:44.
From a servant of Jesus,
Roger Hathaway, January 2006
ADDENDUM:
(1) The May/June 2001 issue of BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW has an article by Ephraim Stern, titled PAGAN YAHWISM, The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel, beginning on page 21. The article begins with"The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists. But the archaeological evidence (and the Bible, too, if you read it closely enough) suggests that the monotheism of many Israelites was far from pure. . . . Some Israelites believed that Yahweh had a female consort. And many Israelites invoked the divinity with the help of images, particularly figurines. I call this Israelite religion pagan Yahwism.
The archaeological evidence we will look at comes mostly from Judah in what is known in archaeological terms as the Assyrian period, the span from 721 B.C.E., when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, until 586 B.C.E., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and brought an end to the Davidic dynasty in Judah."
The lengthy article contains lots of information regarding the digs and their finds, including one picture of three figurines which are upper-half bodies of females who are holding up their large breasts with their hands. These female figures represent the consorts of Yahweh. It was common among Israel's neighbors that each deity had his own consort, all of which were known by the common names of "Asherah" or "Ashtoreth" or "Astarte." The figurines in the picture in this article are Asherahs of Yahweh.
(2) The November/December 2001 issue of BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW has a response to the above article by another archaeologist, who says, regarding some inscriptions that were found, "The main texts, the blessings 'to Yahweh and his Asherah' are in fact the standard format for the opening of a business letter.
It appears pretty clear that all evidence confirms that the personal name YHWH was borrowed from Israel's pagan neighbors during the captivities by Israelites who also borrowed MUCH from the Chaldean Mystery Schools before they returned to Jerusalem with a religion properly called, Babylonian Talmudic Phariseeism. Egyptians records connect YHWH with some of Israel's neighbors but not with Israel. One need only read the Old Testament to understand that Israel's God was a jealous God whom other nations recognized as Israel's God and not theirs. What scholar wants to speculate that Israel's God was adopted by other nations who were enemies of Israel? I would suggest that those individuals who feel compelled to worship that pagan deity might as well include his Asherah alongside him on their altars. But, for those who care what God's truth really is, let them present some evidence that YHWH was really a proper name for the God of Israel in pre-exile times. Their main evidence is quite limited to the Masoretic fraud in the Edomites' Old Testament of tenth century A.D.
And for those who think the Hebrew language was the language of our patriarchs, where is any evidence to support that? It doesn't exist. Consider this. The Edomite Jew Masoretes spent three hundred years preparing the Masoretic Text (MT), supposedly just separating the words and adding diacritical marks. Has any scholar asked what manuscript the Masoretes worked from to create their MT? It is assumed that they must have worked from an ancient Hebrew manuscript. BUT, the square letter Herodian Script was only invented during the century before Jesus was born. And there is NO evidence that any Old Testament existed in the Hebrew language or Herodian Script at the time of Jesus. Jewish scholars like Philo and Aristeas the Exegete used the Greek Septuagint exclusively for their exegetical work, assuming that the secrets to understanding God's communique were in the Greek words and nuances. What's more, they made no reference to, nor hint of, any Hebrew text which might be more authentic. As a matter of fact, NO ancient writer hinted that any such text existed.
It is puzzling beyond belief that there are individuals, who pretend sincere faith, who care not about historical facts. Rather, they adopt beliefs for their religions in spite of strong conflicts against them. Just as with much of mainstream Christianity, religion trumps facts.
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